Example sentences for: cease-fire

How can you use “cease-fire” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Since the cease-fire, Saddam has continued to build conventional arms for these forces under the watchful eye of the U.N. inspectors.

  • Its second paragraph states that the cease-fire means the IRA is "renouncing a terrorist campaign that has included bombings, the killings of two policemen and the disruption of public services in recent months."

  • Which is why it's surprising that the LAT commits the unclarity of saying that the earlier cease-fire "ended without warning in February, 1996 with a London truck bomb that killed two people," without mentioning that the explosion was attributed to the IRA.

  • The United Nations brokered a peace agreement in 1949, dividing Kashmir along a cease-fire line that has roughly held until today.

  • This summer, hostilities approached all-out war between India and Pakistan, as the nations' armies traded shots over the cease-fire line.


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